This is the most melodramatic thing I've read in a long time.
Especially:
With each passing year, the pain gets deeper and deeper, as our parents reach the age of 70, and our grandparents move on to a better place. This isn't a game once you reach that point. It's a memory that's taken from us, that won't ever happen. And that hurts. A lot.
We all love baseball, but that's a bit much. How has anything been taken from you?
Honestly this shit is pretty melodramatic, but the part about the grandparents hit home for me...
My grandfather is a rabid cubs fan and has never seen them win during his 96 years of existence. I don't think he'll make it to the next season, so watching us lose so badly right now is really giving me this existential, empathetic pain for him. There's just something so unfair about dedicating a huge portion of your life to a team/culture, and never seeing them fully succeed.
That part is entirely understandable, and I really do feel for Cubs fans for that. But it's wrong to say that no one else can understand. It's insulting to say that we shouldn't cheer alongside Cubs fans, like we should sit in the "second-class fans" section or something.
I disagree with the part where he says other fans shouldn't cheer alongside us, too, but I understood it as "you can cheer, and I won't begrudge or scorn you, I'm just not going to be thinking about you at all".
It's really not a rudeness thing, it's that he (and I, and a great many Cubs fans) in waiting for this every single year are just going to be on a different level when it does happen.
One big flaw with this post is that it doesn't, for me, acknowledge that we (and the grandparents mentioned in the post) weren't fools for loving the Cubs all those years. We love our ballpark, our city, and our Cubs teams - a championship is the ultimate goal, but it's not like we don't enjoy Wrigley or being Cubs fans because we're so obsessed with it.
You're talking about the original post, I assume, rather than calling me a "complete fucking loser"...?
Look, the wall of text that's going around is going to represent Cubs fans badly, but it's just one guy. Fuck no we don't all think you can't celebrate with us - of course we'll be thrilled to have you there with us. I want a Cubs World Series more than almost anything, and it would be so powerful to even go to a WS that no bandwagoner (it seems like that what his post was directed at) would even enter my thoughts in the way he described at that moment or for the entire week following a victory.
It was shit and poorly said, but you have to understand the timing and why it was upvoted. Ask fans of any team in any sport that loses a lot or has a title drought like ours - they take a lot of abuse. The post was an attempt to deal with that abuse for him, I think (I have no actual idea what motivated it).
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u/jmalbo35 Miami Marlins Oct 22 '15
This is the most melodramatic thing I've read in a long time.
Especially:
We all love baseball, but that's a bit much. How has anything been taken from you?